Visualizing Creation

Germany, 1986

Israel, 1999

Greece, 1994

Poland, 1988

Poland, 1997

To visualize Creation, publishers usually
choose
to illustrate with ancient images, although the action-packed German
hardcover certainly stands out. One handsome Brazilian edition (below)
seems to show an ancient Persian figure on a mountaintop. The German title
means "I, Cyrus, Grandson of Zarathustra," a reference to the novel's
narrator and his famous grandfather (who is also called Zoroaster). Both
the Russian and Polish titles mean "The Creation of the World," a bit of a

misnomer if taken literally. Below, these Turkish, Spanish and Brazilian
paperback editions continue the theme of ancient imagery, as does the
Italian hardcover first edition. The book has been very popular in Spain,
where it has appeared in various hardcover and paperback editions since
its first Spanish publication in 1982. The 1995 Spanish cover promises "a
chronicle of the fabulous world of the 5th Century." Only the Bulgarian
paperback breaks away from historical and depicts the dawn of creation,
taking the title literally. The covers of
Julian, however, always tend to depict images of ancient
history.